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So, my hard drive took a dive the other day (I think it was a bad partitioning for Bootcamp), and I now need to restore from a backup.
I use a laptop, and I rarely connect to an external drive, so my backup was a manual backup to the Amazon Cloud. Here are the files I backed up:
/Library
~/Desktop
~/Documents
~/Library
~/Music
~/Pictures
I want a simple way to restore everything. My keychain, mail messages, iTunes library, and settings should all be in there somewhere. How do I get it back?
Here's what I was thinking:
Create an admin account.
Create a normal user with the same shortname as my backed up account.
As admin, copy all of the files from the cloud to the home folder of my backed up account.
Repair disk permissions.
Load a fully functioning user account.
Will that work, or is there some step that I need to throw in there to make everything go as planned?
I use a laptop, and I rarely connect to an external drive, so my backup was a manual backup to the Amazon Cloud. Here are the files I backed up:
/Library
~/Desktop
~/Documents
~/Library
~/Music
~/Pictures
I want a simple way to restore everything. My keychain, mail messages, iTunes library, and settings should all be in there somewhere. How do I get it back?
Here's what I was thinking:
Create an admin account.
Create a normal user with the same shortname as my backed up account.
As admin, copy all of the files from the cloud to the home folder of my backed up account.
Repair disk permissions.
Load a fully functioning user account.
Will that work, or is there some step that I need to throw in there to make everything go as planned?